If you created a 37 gig partition then there should be more that 478 MB of free space. There should be around 3072MB of free space.
Look at the IDE cables. Make sure that you are looking at the correct drive. If you created the 37 gig partition with windows, XP should see the 37gig partition. XP should see the entire drive even if there were Linux or NT 4.0 partitions. One other thing I would try is to make sure that the bios sees the entire drive. Dragonfly lfibonacci wrote: > > Thanks for your reply Dragonfly, but I believe I did not express > correctly my problem. I cannot install winxp pro because the program > finds ONLY 478MB of un-partitioned space on the hard drive, and > nothing else.No mention at all about partitioned/usable space besides > that 478MB. My only given choice would be to partition/install in that > 478MB.I believe that disk management showed a healty drive with a > capacity of 37 GB at the end of formatting. This thing is driving me > crazy. I MUST be doing something wrong! > > alex > > --- In [email protected] > <mailto:A-1-Computer_Tech%40yahoogroups.com>, Dragonfly > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You are almost there. > > > > If you have formatted a 40Gig drive, why don't you install XP in the > > formatted portion? :~) (Sorry, I couldn't resist.) > > > > If it displayed as a healthy drive, what was the capacity? > > > > In disk management you can see all partitions when preparing the drive. > > If you see more than one partition on the drive, delete all partitions > > until there is only one big unallocated space. Then create one partition > > and format it. It may not take up all the space but should only leave a > > small amount of unallocated space. There may be 5 - 20 megabytes. 478 MB > > is much more than should be left. > > > > Dragonfly > > > > lfibonacci wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > I have formatted a 40gb slave hard drive (loaded with winxp home > > > edition) by selecting Disk Management and then format,and at the end > > > of the formatting it showed like a HEALTHY drive, but if I connect it > > > as a primary drive trying to load a new operating system (winxp pro), > > > I get a message sying that the unpartitioned space is only 478MB out > > > of 40GB. > > > Could anyone help me to figure out what I'm doing wrong? > > > Thanks in advance for any advice/suggestion. > > > > > > alex > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:lfibonacci%40yahoo.com> > > > > > > > > > > If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
